fetishist

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I'm a big prose fetishist, and I tend to read in order to learn things as a writer, and usually I can figure out how a really good writer's style works to some degree, but it was like Wallace was writing on an entirely other plane or something.

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  1. A worshiper of fetishes. The Voguls, though baptized, are in fact fetichists, as much as the unconverted Samoyedes. Encyc. Brit., XXI. 81.
  2. Same as fetishistic. They [the tribe of Wolof Serrare] … have not yet entirely renounced fetichist practices. London Daily News.

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  • We can hardly wait, breathless as we are at the return of Indy's first love, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), the addition of Cate Blanchett as a torture-fetishist villain, and rumors that Indy and son (Shia LeBeouf) will circle the globe to get to a fallen alien spacecraft before the nasty Russians do. —  AHMM,July-August2008
  • When San Francisco police engage in a sick-out to protest the mayor's budget cuts, TV's obsessive-compulsive homicide consultant Adrian Monk returns to official police work and confronts a variety of cases (serial killings of female joggers by a shoe fetishist, a murdered as-trologer, and others, some connected and some not), aided by minder and Watson-narrator Natalie Teeger and a trio of comically impaired ex-cops. —  EQMM,June2007
  • The Silhoutte was a fetishist (and a lesbian), while Hooded Justice was heavily into rough stuff (and a gay man), and his partner —  Bright Lights After Dark
  • Perfect for seducing the artsy-fartsy design fetishist or DWR sales person of your fancy. —  TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
  • The fetishist was Dr. Cerny, the city dentist and known co-conspirator of Zelenka, but a couple hours later he told John the whole thing went fine. —  Wraithbait
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